Appearing in today’s Mirror is a story concerning our long-standing client, Barry George. The underlying story is of an exoneree who has received no apology and no compensation, and who feels that despite being cleared he continues to live his sentence. This is entirely typical of the experience of exonerees, and highlights the failure of care and support provided to those who have been wrongly convicted and imprisoned.
Not innocent enough…
You can read the original story HERE
Those of you who follow this site, or our social media, will be aware of our friend Jimmy Boyle. Some will know something of his story. Convicted and imprisoned as the result of false and malicious allegations, Jimmy was eventually to secure what passes for justice. But not until the system had extracted from him […]
The decision by the coroner at the Birmingham bombings inquest to exclude from scrutiny the very matters that might have allowed the victims’ families some degree of closure – a decision that also denied justice to Paddy Hill and the other unwitting victims of the atrocity – rendered that exercise effectively pointless and, depending on […]
For miscarriage of justice victims looking to overturn their wrongful convictions, one of the most significant challenges they encounter is the refusal of police and Crown to allow access to crucial evidence that could fatally undermine the case against them. From The Guardian online yesterday (10 July), we reproduce an interesting article that highlights this […]